Connecting Rod Bearing: Service and Repair

Connecting Rod Bearing, Engine Set, Renew

Remove components as required for access and proceed as follows.

- Remove the oil pan.




- Remove the bolts securing the crankshaft windage trays (6 Fig. 1) to the cylinder block and remove the trays.

- Rotate the crankshaft for access to the first connecting rod.




- Remove the nuts (1 Fig. 2) securing the connecting rod bearing cap (2 Fig. 2) to the connecting rod and remove the cap and bearing assembly.




- Note the position of the cap relative to the connecting rod and also that they are numbered to each other (Fig. 3). Discard the connecting rod bearing nuts.

CAUTION: The connecting rod nuts and bolts MUST be renewed during assembly and torque tightened as described under Engine, Service and Repair, Service Procedures, SPS Joint Control System.

- Discard the bearing shell (3 Fig. 3), move the connecting rod and piston up the bore and remove the bearing shell from the connecting rod (2 Fig. 3).

- Remove the `paired' bearing caps, 1-6, 2-5, 3-4. as in the previous description.

- Clean and polish the crankshaft journals, oil the new bearings and fit the two halves to the connecting rods.

Note: Ensure that the `tag' (1 Fig. 3) on the shell is fully seated in the connecting rod.

- Oil the crankshaft journals.

- Pull one piston and connecting rod assembly down the bore and into position on its relative crankshaft journal.

- Fit a bearing shell to the `matched' connecting rod bearing cap.

Note: Ensure that the `tag' on the shell is fully seated in the connecting rod bearing cap, oil the shell and fit to the crankshaft I connecting rod assembly using new connecting rod bearing nuts.

- Refit the oil pan.

Replace the components removed for access.